Friday, February 7, 2020

Impeachment 2.0? Democrats line up possible new charges against Trump

  1. Schiff said: “During the prior Congress, the Committee began to pursue credible reports of money laundering and financial compromise related to the business interests of President Trump, his family, and his associates.
  2. The President’s actions and posture towards Russia during the campaign, transition, and administration have only heightened fears of foreign financial or other leverage over President Trump and underscore the need to determine whether he or those in his Administration have acted in service of foreign interests since taking office.” The Mueller report didn’t mention any financial ties between Mr.
  3. He doesn’t know if it’s Russians laundering money for Trump through the NRA, Trump properties, Deutsche Bank, or the Trump Tower Moscow project, but he’s convinced that somewhere, somehow, something happened.” One of Fusion GPS’s allegations is that Russians provided illegal campaign donations to the National Rifle Association’s political action committee.
  4. Schiff has been investigating President Trump, his family and businesses, the Trump Organization, over the congressman’s suspicions of blackmail, money laundering and bribery.
  5. “Whether President Trump, his family, or his associates are or were at any time at heightened risk of, or vulnerable to, foreign exploitation, inducement, manipulation, pressure, or coercion, or have sought to influence U.S. government policy in service of foreign interests.” In the year since Mr.
  6. Schiff said: “Whether any foreign actor has sought to compromise or holds leverage, financial or otherwise, over Donald Trump, his family, his business, or his associates.
  7. Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, told the committee he knew of no Russia money flowing into the Trump Organization, the president’s real estate development firm.


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/6/second-impeachment-could-be-on-horizon-for-trump/

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